Description

Therapeutic action:

– Local anaesthetic

Indications:

– Local anaesthesia

-dental surgery: 2% lignocaine ADR (with epinephrine)

Contra-indications, adverse effects, precautions:

– Do not administer if known allergy to lignocaine, impaired cardiac conduction.
– Do not use lidocaine for the incision of abscesses: risk of spreading the infection.
– Lidocaine with epinephrine (adrenaline):
• In dental surgery, epinephrine added to lignocaine to prolongs anaesthesia
• Never use solutions with epinephrine for the anaesthesia of extremities (fingers, penile nerve block): risk of ischemia and necrosis.
–Pregnancy: no contra-indication
 Breast-feeding: no contra-indication